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Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant network
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-08-19

The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, despite a belief by plant personnel that the network was protected by a firewall, SecurityFocus has learned.

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Re: Real World Example 2006-10-17
A Concerned Info Sec Pro
Please do not post information about your defensive strategy configurations! This kind of info fuels the reconnaissance and data harvesting of the bad guys! While not specific to the point of versions, etc... it is just NOT a good practice and can be VERY dangerous to your IS environment - and OUR ...

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